Vincent Aleven - Teaching

Teaching

Current Classes

Fall 2007: CMU/HCII 05-899/ 53-621 Design of Educational Games

The potential of digital games to improve education is enormous. However, it is a significant challenge to create a digital game that is both fun and has predictable educational outcomes. In this new course students will learn to meet this challenge. The course will involve a significant hands-on portion in which students go through multiple iterations of an educational game development process. They will also read about game design, instructional design, learning and transfer, and the educational effectiveness of digital games. The co-instructors will be Vincent Aleven of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Eben Myers of the Entertainment Technology Center. The intended audience are graduate students in HCII, CS, ETC, Design, and students interested in education or psychology research.
Spring 2008: 05-571 Undergraduate Project in HCI

Past Classes

Fall 2006: CMU/HCII 05-832 Cognitive Modeling and Intelligent Tutoring Systems

This course addresses the use of cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence to create computer-based "intelligent tutoring systems". Students will learn data-driven and theoretical methods for creating cognitive models of human problem solving. Such models have been used to understand students’ learning processes and to create educational software that has been demonstrated to dramatically enhance student learning in domains like mathematics and computer programming. In addition to discussion and readings on methods and models of problem solving, learning, and tutor design, the course will have a substantial “learning by doing” component. Students will be analysing data, designing cognitive models and interfaces, and implementing an intelligent tutoring system using CTAT, the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (see http://ctat.pact.cs.cmu.edu). Students should either have programming skills or experience in the cognitive psychology of human problem solving.